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1. South Africa: From Nuclear Armed State to Disarmament Hero

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... took another critical step towards a nuclear-weapons-free-world: on February 25: it ratified in the halls of the UN Headquarters in New York, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). ...

Created on 28 February 2019

2. Enhancing Interaction Between CTBT and the Pelindaba Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by the Pelindaba Treaty, establishing Africa as Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ) in 2009, AFCONE plays an important role in regional efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation. It also promotes peaceful ...

Created on 27 February 2019

3. UN Warns Against Emerging Hypersonic Weapon Technologies

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... hypersonic weapons do not count towards the limits of the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), which is the key arms control agreement limiting the strategic delivery systems of the two major nuclear ...

Created on 24 February 2019

4. On the Precipice of a Multipolar Qualitative Nuclear Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the prerogative of States whether to seize those opportunities and make the most of them. In 2020, we will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ...

Created on 23 February 2019

5. Europe Ventures to Speak Up Against USA

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... multilateral agreements such as the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA), INF Treaty – Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Also ...

Created on 22 February 2019

6. A Nuclear Arms Race Will Produce No Winners

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Despite everything, it is still in our power to avoid nuclear confrontation. Viewpoint by Mikhail Gorbachev* MOSCOW (IDN-INPS) – The fate of the INF treaty has politicians and ordinary people worried ...

Created on 21 February 2019

7. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Premier and Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai proposed a peace treaty. But U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, refused – leaving a final peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula hanging in the air. ...

Created on 20 February 2019

8. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

(Project Articles)

... Premier and Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai proposed a peace treaty. But U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, refused – leaving a final peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula hanging in the air. ...

Created on 20 February 2019

9. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Treaty Review Conference. NEW YORK (IDN) – Although humankind has known since the dawn of ages the sorrow, misery and devastation caused by war, the most catastrophic military conflicts in history are ...

Created on 06 February 2019

10. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Project Articles)

... Treaty Review Conference. NEW YORK (IDN) – Although humankind has known since the dawn of ages the sorrow, misery and devastation caused by war, the most catastrophic military conflicts in history are ...

Created on 06 February 2019

11. Trashing Treaties: It’s Not Just Trump

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Donald Trump’s monumental strategic mistake in unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. It is indeed a blunder of the highest degree that not ...

Created on 04 February 2019

12. Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... DC (IDN-INPS) – The Trump administration announced on February 1 that effective February 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and ...

Created on 02 February 2019

13. Mayors, Legislators Push For A Nuclear Weapons Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Jamshed Baruah BASEL (IDN) – Preserve the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty! Prevent a new nuclear arms race in Europe! Undertake measures to reduce the risk of a nuclear conflict! ...

Created on 31 January 2019

14. Trump’s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... arsenal below the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) on limits on U.S. missile defenses. In a speech last year (2018) touting several new Russian nuclear delivery systems such as an ...

Created on 30 January 2019

15. Time Is Running Out For Sensible Decision-Making On Missile Defences

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... technical wherewithal to manufacture nuclear weapons. Even if it didn’t observe the treaty it has no rockets that could carry a nuclear or serious conventional payload as far as Europe. No wonder the Russians ...

Created on 29 January 2019

16. Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Approach', the 2019 annual peace proposal, released in Tokyo, focuses on expanding the scope of ratification of the TPNW to achieve its entry into force. The Treaty was adopted by a vote of 122 States ...

Created on 28 January 2019

17. Report Advising Sweden Not To Join Nuclear Ban Treaty Disappoints ICAN

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the Swedish Parliament on possible Swedish “accession” to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), has concluded that Sweden should not join the Treaty “in its present form”. The 234-page ...

Created on 19 January 2019

18. The Guterres Disarmament Agenda: Continuity And Change

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... maintain that the “grand bargain” in the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has not been implemented. In frustration, many in civil society, working with several governments, are promoting the newly ...

Created on 15 January 2019

19. The INF Treaty Crisis Is A Global Security Problem

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... agreements: the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which led to the verifiable elimination of 2,692 Soviet and U.S. missiles based in Europe. The treaty helped bring an end to the Cold ...

Created on 10 January 2019

20. Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to walk out of established nuclear arms control treaties represents a new danger, they are also an opportunity. Trump announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty ...

Created on 09 January 2019